LINKBLOG for June 8, 2009
Jun 8th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Code Contracts Primer – Part 1: Introduction – Derik Whittaker
As of version 4.0 (or VS2010) … ‘ The Code Contracts library is going to provide a way to express coding assumptions in .Net ‘Reflecting reality – Jimmy Bogard
When Do I Use Interfaces? – K. Scott Allen
‘ “Program to an interface, not an implementation” (…) How do know if you crossed the line? ‘
You might already be familiar with Git but man, if I see a tutorial like this, I just know why I haven’t checked it out yet
TDDing an Interface – a Twitter influenced discussion – Brett Schuchert
Scrum and XP From the Trenches – Hans-Eric Grönlund
Book Review: Beautiful Teams – Jim Holmes
‘ This book’s a good read and a nice addition to your bookshelf, although its uneven writing style and fractured voice detract from some great tidbits ‘Why XLinq is awesome – the benefits Tim Stall
“Why am I here?” – Seth Godin
Great words on meetings – and your presence or absence in them
‘ If there isn’t a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something. Loud, now and memorable. Productive too, please ‘Five Ideas I’ve Implemented to Get More Done – Glen Allsop
‘ “I am going to die.” Subsequent thoughts concluded that life is too short to worry about irrelevant situations, and sure enough, my anxiety disappeared and I stopped worrying ‘ Hash, but if this motivational technique works for you, why not?Algorithms in C#: shortest path around a polygon (polyline routing) – Kirill Osenkov
‘ Suppose you have to build a road to connect two cities on different sides of a lake. How would you plan the road to make it as short as possible? ‘23 Essential Elements of Sharable Blog Posts – Chris Brogan
On first looks this one adheres to all 23 elements, that’s why it shows up here
‘ Simply having a team structured with a high number of seniors does not ensure that the work will be of high quality, or that they will be significantly more productive ‘
Read about what else comes into play for a successful team in this well written post by DerickProductivity in the Cloud… – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ I value being able to have access to my data anytime and anywhere… no matter what device I happen to be on… ‘ Mike has an affinity with paper, but finds he uses it less and less in favor of all those cool apps that the iPhone has to offerGeneric Value Object – Jan van Ryswyck
WCF defaults stifles loose coupling – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
‘ This is another post (<Rant>) about WCF default behavior and how it can make the life of developers miserable ‘You’re Only as Busy as You Want Yourself to Be – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen has a funny way of getting rid of his task list. Read the story, behind the fun I see a GTD principle coming up of doing that what must be done now, instead of being ruled from a stupid task listPair Programming: So you don’t want to do it… – Mark Needham
Mark makes a couple interestings observations in this postHow To Make Conferences Better – Jaclyn
‘ Make your conference tell a story to the people, provide spots throughout the speaking that enable excitement and some calmer moments as well ‘Using NUnit to check your IoC container is set up right – Richard Dingwall
‘ (…) it is very easy to write a test to check everything has been registered properly. All you need is a bit of reflection to find all the interfaces in an assembly, then try to resolve them allLINQ in Action samples in LINQPad – Fabrice Marguerie
‘ Do you know LINQPad? It’s a really simple but great tool for testing LINQ queries. Not only that, but it can be used to test all kinds of C# and VB code snippets ‘Delegates Explained in Plain English – Simon Pickersgill
Which is a challenge of it’s own
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